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Maybe private interests are not the best way to compete in scientific discovery. Profit motive directly hinders discovery and safety.
Government-funded manned spaceflight programs aren't done for pure science either. It's a cool kids club where money is allocated for political reasons ("nation prestige" or some other bullshit). NASA didn't land on the moon because American senators were fans of science, they were tasked with it to "beat" USSR.
Science-based space exploration should use automatic probes only, anything else is a waste of money.
You don't need a three stage Apollo rocket that can lift 150t to LEO for your ICBMs.
That area of launch ability was functionally complete in 1960 with Redstone and possibly a bit of showing off in the guidance phase with Gemini.